The Memphis appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1886-1890, 1887-10-10
SUNDAY SERMON 3.
The Rev. DR.. Jones Replies TO the
Rev DR.. Boggs.
Did Jesus Oh rist Advocate Prohibi-
lion, or hid He Favor Social
Drfnking Custems7

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He took his text from Ezekiel IIxiii.,
IT, and Acts xx., "a. In oil sges the
chu ca has been the prime mover in
all good works, the mighty engine Of
moral reform. Turn to history, the
men who led reforms were men called
by God.
See Noah preaching TO the antede-
luvisn world; MoeeP, tho great teacher
Of mo~notheism, among the idolsters Of
that day Joshua, a leader and preach.
err. Come along down to samuel,
Eli ali and Els men called by
God 10 a certain mission. Jonah was
called TO preach to Ninsveh. He tried
to sbirk his duty, but God punished
him and made him perform his mis-.
slou. Come along down to the New
Testament; first we find John the
Baptist, rude, rugged, uneducated, but
bis words came like thunderbolts,
Repent ye."
The nations OF his time had the
commercial law; they YER proud Of
their antiquity, OF their wealth, but
they were spiritually dead, He
preached TO the SAdducees, the Phari-
sees, the + ,eeDee, etc, and preached
the gosTs o. Of peace 10 many snxlous
souls. Mex, Christ, the great teacher,
breaches to tha Ssdducees, the Pnari-
sees, the scribss and the lswyom; 90.
nounced fearlessly their hypocrisy
exposed their follies, wees and crimes.
Psnl pres ched from house TO house,
and from city to city. He was called
q mailman, an enthusiast, a fanatic.
bat he cared not. He had q message
from God to deliver to his people, aud
he said, "lhis thing will / do" 70.
gardless Of his life or personal safety.
A man who feels that he is called
to preach, who feels the holy spirit
within him, and who fails to warn his
fellow men OF impending danger is
mistaken la his calling. see how the
world has been saved. Look at the
wsrld in the middle Of the last centu-
ny. England from the throne to the
pot house suck In moral corruption,
bat there were rsised up Luther,
Wycl ffe, Cfaumtr, Knox, Welsh,
and before the century closed l see
Briton saved by Nicholson.
In this century who have moved
tho world? The Gl,dstones, the
Spurgeons, the Moodys, the Sam
Joneses, who have redeemed the world
by their zeal and earneetnese.
The nation 10 nov stirred By the
temperance question. Not only
Tennessee, bat from Vancouver on
the Pacific to the bleak coast Of NJ iins
on the Atlantic. The Coincidence Of
the nations are awakening. We see
In our great cities ansrchism, Doodle
lem, and q thousand vices aud crimee,
and what is the underlying cause OF
IL all? The liquor traffic leading the
nation down 10 degradation and ruin.
Inc liquor question is engaging the
attention Of the wnole world, and the
ministry cannot sand silent aad pas-
sive under this great evil. II the min
isters warn the people and they heed
them not, they are free from their
blood, bat II they dc not God will re-
quirs their blood at their hands. Who
snail warn them II not the clergy2 IL
has been said that only the preachers
and the women advocate prohibition.
Look at the women In our land
VINO suffer through this traffic. See
the iniquity Of this evil, the enormity
OF this evil A ser non was preached
in this city last Sunday night that
has created more gossip than any
preached here Tor years. The mimic.
ter said with the civil process the
ministry has nothing 10 do" Has
not the ministry the p~rerogative Of
dtalips with tbs known evils Of soci.
ety. Was W such heresy heard he-
for-3 Has the church nothing 10 dc
with murder and theft 60 far as II con-
Germs their Individual mtmbsrs7
What is . ministers dGiy7 Il n
10 deal In ceAd dogmas or 10 expa.
tisis on a scisntfc thsory? No won.
the church Ia deemes week and
tifsmina,s, 10 conient.ite'i with such
subjsc's while Gin 10 Tuining and
undermining society. The doctor
says u the minister lnterieres be- tius.
II sin, / stand In the company Of $40
Presbyterian Minister, 4CO Meth.
odiss and owe 800 Bsptis,s, and min.
listers Of every other dsnomina lon,
and oil OF them, too, are guilty 1
deadly ain. / zee q man going down
step BY sep, and try 10 arrest his
footsteps. An | guilty OF Sin Ia 20
doioR7 Surely the doctor did no,
understand the meaning Of the word,
a. laid down by his o~n Pfe,bytsrian
sssembly. The doctor rays the Bible
does not prohibit. "Do not drink wine
nor strong drink, th6u nor thy IONS
with thee, when 20 70 into the iaber.
nacls 81 the congregation, lest ye dc
II shall b. a STA ute forever through.
ont your gs~neiations. s rong drink
thsll be bitter 10 them that drink a."
No say. holy writ. IL tina, not prohi,
bltion'
"For = bishop must be b~lamele.s-
not sslf'slll'd not soOn angry, not
given 10 wine"
at 10 good neither 10 eat ilssh, mol
IN dfiLk wine, etc, moi Anytbipe
whereby thy brother stumbieth," etc
Hear what the Rev Joseph Cook, oI
Boston. says In Teiuiaiion OF tbil
strapgs logic Of the doctors; Il clsin
tbtt oaT Lara Was cJutihttnt Will
himself, and Jon sre uuerirg bias
phCmy n you suppose tina, he (resd
ing the c0mmand, Woe unto him ibaI
gVtth his neighbor drink and 'looi
no, thou upon the wine whsn IL u
red) created vice Of that sort aac
gave II 10 ths aue,ts wac had .lrsadJ
p.en drinking. | proclaim, without
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nothing In the example OF our Lore
b. j1stify our modern social drinking
customs" And vheu our L6Id's en-
ample Ia cited In Justification cay.
With al reverence, that you accus
him % being y wins blbbsr. / 10 %
awful, o rious obAiga. ltmight do on
the husiBg, before such = crowd ~
yelled aud sbouied pa The bluffs mol
lorg ago, but not from a Christian
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